Isolation of potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 from the Ganges River

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2369-2372

  Hamner, Steve ^a   Broadaway, Susan C ^a   Mishra, Veer Bhadra ^b   Tripathi, Anshuman ^c   Mishra, Rajesh Kumar ^d   Pulcini, Elinor ^a   Pyle, Barry H ^a   Ford, Timothy E ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Natl Mineral Development Corp   (India)

^d Sankat Mochan Foundation   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; HEALTH CARE; PATHOGENS; RIVERS;

GANGES RIVER; GENE SEQUENCES; PATHOGENIC ISOLATES; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PATHOGEN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE SEQUENCE; INDIA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; RIVER; SEROTYPE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; PUBLIC HEALTH; RIVERS; SORBITOL;

ASIA; EURASIA; GANGES RIVER; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34247514740     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00141-07     Document Type: Article

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